Friday, November 4th, 2011
LiveScience-Before the Wall of Wind, researchers at Texas Tech University in Lubbock tried using a C-130 airplane to simulate hurricane winds on a house. They backed the plane up to a trailer and cranked the engines up to 120 mph (193 kph) to see what would happen.
Friday, November 4th, 2011
Assistant professor Mark Morton brings his loves of the Beatles’ music to the classroom.
Friday, November 4th, 2011
The Red Raiders competed against more than 30 teams, winning the contest by 31 points.
Friday, November 4th, 2011
Texas Tech University has joined a nationwide effort to honor American service men and women who paid the ultimate sacrifice in Iraq and Afghanistan during the past decade.
The university will participate in the Remembrance Day National Roll Call on Veterans Day, at 9 a.m. Nov. 11 at Memorial Circle.
Texas Tech, along with more than 100 [...]
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
Just in time for Veterans Day (Nov. 11) comes “David and Lee Roy: A Vietnam Story,” a book about the childhood friendship between David Nelson and Lee Roy Herron.
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
The Texas Tech University livestock judging team won the American Royal Livestock Judging Contest by 31 points Sunday (Oct. 30) in Kansas City.
Thirty-two teams competed in 12 classes of livestock, containing four animals each. Classes included both breeding and market animals in beef, sheep/goat, and swine divisions. The contestants then appeared before the judges to [...]
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
Doctoral student is gaining international attention with his radar sensor technology.
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
United Press International-Bernerth and colleagues at Texas Tech University and Northern Illinois University found no correlation between poor credit scores and bad behavior on the job.
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
Consumer Affairs -Researchers from LSU, Texas Tech University and Northern Illinois University have tried to address that question. Their recently completed a study showcased the link between credit ratings and an individual’s personality, and found no connection between poor credit scores and theft.
Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
A cancer forms and the battle begins. However, when the tumor floats freely, the disease claims an unfair advantage. Texas Tech’s advances in cancer research are gaining international attention.
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
A Texas Tech Elizabethan staging expert, who recently presented a paper at the American Shakespeare Center’s Blackfriars Conference, says doubting the Bard is bunkum.
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
PHYSORG-With unemployment rates in the United States at double digits, losing a career opportunity has a potentially higher impact than nearly ever before, while the nationwide wave of foreclosures simultaneously makes it more likely for an individual to have a black mark on their record. In an upcoming study to be published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, researchers from LSU, Texas Tech University and Northern Illinois University have showcased the link between credit ratings and an individual’s personality, and shown no connection between poor credit scores and theft.
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
Psychology Today -Alan Reifman, Ph.D., is a Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at Texas Tech University.
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
T.S. Monk will perform at 7 p.m. Nov. 11 as part of the Presidential Lecture and Performance Series.
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
New York Times-Some of the farthest-reaching effects may be on world cotton markets. Texas produces about 50 percent of U.S. cotton, and the United States in turn grows between 18 and 25 percent of the world’s cotton, according to Darren Hudson, director of the Cotton Economics Research Institute at Texas Tech University. This year, however, yields even from irrigated crops have fallen about 60 percent on the high plains where the bulk of Texas’s cotton crop grows, Mr. Hudson said. Farmers have given up on their “dry-land,” or unirrigated, cotton crops.
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
Investment News-“This is a tough situation for Chairman Schapiro because the SEC is cast with overseeing Finra, which this case shows has been altering documents, and recently the SEC itself came under fire for destroying documents,” said Denise Voigt Crawford, a Texas Tech University Law School professor, retired Texas securities commissioner and former president of the North American Securities Administrators Association Inc.
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
The new format presents data on domestic subsidies and trade restrictions on key agricultural product-producing countries.
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
AdvisorOne – “We have to take the macro view for our clients.”
So said Susan John, chair of the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors, at NAPFA’s Practice Management & Investments conference last week in Brooklyn, which hosted more than 200 advisors, scores of exhibitor booths and a large roster of seminars and speeches.
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
Dividend.com – It was the last day of the month (and Halloween as well), so I’ll be bracing for door duty tonight as the kids make their rounds looking for treats. Unfortunately no treats for investors today as the markets took it on the chin to end what was an otherwise solid month of gains for the indices.
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
USGNN – Experts from various government and private agencies talked about hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes and how best to fight natural disasters during the Protective Glazing Council International’s annual symposium on October 26 at the National Institute of Standards (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Md.
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